Google has announced a significant update to its AI Mode, now supporting five additional languages: Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. This expansion broadens the accessibility of Google’s AI capabilities, allowing users from diverse linguistic backgrounds to engage with the technology more effectively.
The update builds on a specially adapted version of Gemini 2.5, which has been recently hailed for its multimodal and reasoning capabilities. These developments make everything much more enjoyable to use. Today, people are able to pose subtle queries in the language they speak and explore the world wide web on their own terms. This is a big deal, according to Hema Budaraju, Vice President of Product Management at Google Search, to whom the feature’s development was really important.
“With this expansion, more people can now use AI Mode to ask complex questions in their preferred language, while exploring the web more deeply,” – Hema Budaraju, VP of Product Management at Google Search.
AI Mode had initially launched as an experimental feature for Google One AI Premium subscribers back in March 2023. It first rolled out in the U.S. Then, it went on to cover the U.K. and India before multiplying to 180 new markets just last month. The feature is part of Google’s ongoing efforts to compete with other AI search platforms, including Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search.
Aside from the language expansion, Google added agentic features to AI Mode in August 2023. These capabilities enable users to book restaurant reservations directly through the AI interface. Upcoming releases will include the ability to book local service appointments and purchase event tickets. This will make AI Mode significantly more powerful and useful for tasks we do regularly.
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